Josh

F. Botts

Shareholder
500 N. Akard Street, Suite 4000
Dallas, TX 75201-6605

Overview

Josh’s practice predominantly focuses on finance and real estate transactions all over the nation. His practice ranges from the representation of commercial lenders and developers, pension funds, Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), paper and industrial companies and institutional investors in financing transactions and restructurings, structured finance transactions and loan assignments, acquisitions and dispositions, development and leasing of office, industrial and retail projects. Within the past year, he has been the lead attorney representing lenders and borrower on over a billion dollars in loan originations.

Josh also has significant experience representing commercial lenders and borrowers in the restructuring of troubled credit facilities, deed in lieu of foreclosure transactions, Intercreditor Agreements and foreclosures of real estate for all types of real estate, including multifamily properties, mixed-use developments and condominiums.

Prior to joining the firm in 2007, he developed and owned a fee attorney title company under Capital Title, Inc. and worked at another Dallas, Texas based law firm.

Education

Admission

Achievements

  • Woodward/White, Inc. – Best Lawyers in America, Banking and Finance Law (2024)
  • Memberships

    • Dallas Bar Association, Real Property Law Section
    • Risk Management Association, Texas Chapter
    • State Bar of Texas, Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Section

Overview

Josh’s practice predominantly focuses on finance and real estate transactions all over the nation. His practice ranges from the representation of commercial lenders and developers, pension funds, Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), paper and industrial companies and institutional investors in financing transactions and restructurings, structured finance transactions and loan assignments, acquisitions and dispositions, development and leasing of office, industrial and retail projects. Within the past year, he has been the lead attorney representing lenders and borrower on over a billion dollars in loan originations.

Josh also has significant experience representing commercial lenders and borrowers in the restructuring of troubled credit facilities, deed in lieu of foreclosure transactions, Intercreditor Agreements and foreclosures of real estate for all types of real estate, including multifamily properties, mixed-use developments and condominiums.

Prior to joining the firm in 2007, he developed and owned a fee attorney title company under Capital Title, Inc. and worked at another Dallas, Texas based law firm.

Experience

  • Real Estate Financing

    Represents a privately-held real estate investment company, and its subsidiaries, in a number of structured finance transactions, primarily secured by existing hotels,

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  • Loan Assignments

    Represents real estate investment companies, and their subsidiaries, in a number of loan assignments, primarily secured by the original lender's rights to the

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  • Debt Refinancing

    Represents real estate investment companies, as borrower’s counsel, in connection with refinancing existing debt across the State of Texas. 

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